“Races condemned to one hundred years of solitude do not get a second chance on this earth.” That line would have no place here. Gilbert Hernandez’s book suggests that Julio’s family, despite all the time nature and history rob them of, do not need another chance to make anything right.
Drinking with Rosie Schaap’s “Drinking with Men.”
Liminality Prevails in Dark Paradise
There are two broader themes mutually shared between all exhibited artwork: first, the melancholic loneliness of landscape, and second, the duality of heavenly elements in a hellish milieu or, conversely, the demonic details in a heavenly environment.
The “recluse” artist is an endangered species, but there’s still one artist keeping the idea of the private public figure alive: Bill Watterson, writer and illustrator of Calvin and Hobbes.
What makes Amanda Palmer’s form of exploitation particularly clever is that it doesn’t look like exploitation — it looks like happy people sharing a good time.
I’d like to argue, though, that there is more here than just a seasonal shift — that a more cosmic confluence exists between Passover, Easter, and baseball that enriches and enlivens why so many of us love so dearly this age-old American pastime. Here, I want to turn to Jacques Barzun.
The Inaccessibility of the American Courtroom
Between the “legalese,” the adversarial nature of proceedings, and the physical divisions of the courtroom, it comes as no surprise these spaces feel increasingly unapproachable to the general public.
Yet in reading translations of contemporary poetry written in non-Western languages, I’ve noticed that they often feel the same. These poems feel… translated.
While Everyone Was At South By Southwest I Was At Emo’s East
Emo’s had seen Austin, buoyed by SXSW, come into itself as the live musical capital of the world. And then it watched as the city outgrew itself.
The End of the Booty Call: How Smartphones Are Cheapening Every Single Aspect of Our Lives
The booty call of yore has commenced its walk of shame.